Basileiad Library

Student Information Literacy Resources    

Citations & Footnotes

Copyright

Information Literacy

Plagiarism

Web Site Evaluation

Citations & Bibliographies

• American Psychological Assn. (APA) style -- Electronic Reference Formats
• Chicago Manual of Style - Florida State University Citation Examples See also (1), (2), (3)
• MLA citations - from Norma Hall's faculty page, gives examples for each format.
• MLA citations - another site for great examples of how to cite using MLA style.
• MLA.org - Modern Language Association
• Noodlebib MLA starter - Free tool for creating MLA-Style bibliographies.
• Download the Manor College Basileiad Library citation guide here.

For examples of each format of MLA style citation, go to the Manor College page, click on 'Faculty', then on 'Hall, Norma', then scroll down to click on 'MLA citations'.

The following books show examples of every type of citation and are available in the library.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Lanuage 
      Assocation of America, 2003. 
      REF PE1408.G53 2003
Hult, Christine A. The new century pocket guide for writers. New York: Longman/Pearson, 2004.
      REF PE1408 .H85 2004
Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations. Chicago: University
      of Chicago Press, 1996.
      REF PE1408.T871996
Raimes, Ann. Keys for writers: a brief handbook. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
      REF PE1408.R16 2002
 

Copyright

• Copyright & Fair Use -- Stanford University Libraries - Everything you need to know in one web site.
• Copyright Tutorial - North Carolina State University Tutorial.
• Crash course in copyright - from the University of Texas.
• Guide to understanding copyright - University of Georgia's site gives many situations in which copyright applies.
• United States Copyright Office

Information Literacy

Basileiad Library's Online Information Literacy course.

• Virtual Training Suite A set of 'teach yourself' tutorials to improve your Information Literacy skills, based on your subject of interest.
• Badke, William's book. Research Strategies: finding your way through the information fog.
• Information and You - from Penn State University.
• TILT: Texas Information Literacy Tutorial  - An interactive library tutorial.
• Florida International University Libraries
• University of Maryland

Plagiarism Websites 

Plagiarize \'pla-je-,riz also j - -\ vb -rized; -riz·ing vt [plagiary] : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (a created production) without crediting the source vi: to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source - pla·gia·riz·er n  Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 9th ed, (Springfield, Ma: Merriam 1981, p. 870).

• Avoiding plagiarism - Purdue University Online Writing Lab Article
• DMOZ Open Project Directory - Detecting and avoiding plagiarism sites
• Education World - Student's Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism.
• Plagiarism - Select Internet and WWW Reference Sources 
• Plagiarism.org - Site devoted to fighting plagiarism and bringing academic integrity back into our schools.
• Plagiarism in the Internet Age - Algonquin College Resource Center Library 
• Plagiarism Resources - List of Internet sources
• Plagiarism Information - Good resource page from College of St. Benedict's/St.John's University.
• The Web's plagiarism police - Salon.com article on the subject.
• What is plagiarism? - Short summary article explaining the topic of "plagiarism."
• Yahoo - Plagiarism resources.

Evaluating a Website

• Evaluating Health Resources on the Internet - from the Harvard School of Public Health.
• Evaluating Information for Reliability - Washington State Library: Library Smart web page.
• Evaluating Internet Resources. - from Virginia Tech.
• Evaluating Resources on the Internet. - links to other evaluation pages.
• Evaluating Websites for Quality  - from the University of New Hampshire.
• Faganfinder's URLinfo - for information about web sites.
• Ten C's for Evaluating Internet Resources - from the University of Wisconsin.

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